List of U.S. ballot initiatives to repeal LGBT anti-discrimination laws

[1] In response, opponents began organizing campaigns to place measures on their local ballots to repeal these anti-discrimination laws.

[citation needed] Bryant's campaign was successful; the Miami-Dade ordinance was repealed by a greater than two-to-one margin.

In California in 1978, conservative state senator John Briggs sponsored Proposition 6, which would have barred gay and lesbian people from working in a public school.

Before the marriage issue arose, some jurisdictions had begun providing limited rights and benefits to same-sex domestic partners.

Couching the debate in terms of forbidding LGBT people from receiving so-called "special rights", OCA sought not only to block ordinances in these communities but to bar them from spending money to "promote homosexuality".

However, in 1993 the Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a law prohibiting local governments from considering LGBT rights measures so the ordinances had no legal force.

[21] Two weeks after the United States Supreme Court ruled in Romer, OCA suspended its efforts for a third statewide ballot initiative.

Prohibits City from extending minority status based on homosexuality, sexual orientation or preference and from enforcing such laws.

Opponents of Colorado's Amendment 2 at a rally sponsored by the National Organization for Women
Opponents of Colorado's Amendment 2 at a rally sponsored by the National Organization for Women